Fall 2011 – Spring 2012

Goodbye and congrats to our graduating seniors in Humanities! I know all of you will be frequenting the blog even after graduation, always yearning for one more snippet of knowledge before beginning your next endeavors.

On a practical note: Any seniors who would like to pick up their art projects for keeps are free to do so! Do me a favor, though, and email me to let me know – if I’m teaching, I can leave it out for you, and I’d also like to take some high-quality photos of them before they’re gone forever.

Feel free to email me with any and all questions you have before the final, too!

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To elaborate on the poem we read in class, here’s the video of celebrated scientist Richard Feynman (instrumental to our development of quantum mechanics and particle physics) explaining science in a nutshell:

Blogger and science commentator Robert Krulwich connects this idea – that the physical, inanimate world is indifferent to our attempts to define it scientifically – to Wislawa Szymborska’s poem. We focus so much on the human element in our course material, that both of these perspectives – the scientific and the literary – give us a view from the other side of things.

To reread the poem or view Robert Krulwich’s post in its entirety, click here.

And since we’re talking about science – here’s a little Neil Degrasse Tyson for your day.

Thought Steve Martin just made comedies? Turns out he’s a novelist and art scholar, too! In the above video, Colbert pokes fun at some of the same works we’ve criticized in class – and for some of the same reasons.

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PLEASE BE SURE to fill in the missing information depending on the articles you are using from the given books! If you use multile articles from the same book, you need a separate citation on the Works Cited page for each one. Be sure to alphabetize your citations by first letter/word.

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Anyone have a spare $80 million hanging around? Maybe stuffed in a mattress somewhere? What better way to spend your riches than to purchase Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”; one of the four originals will soon be available at Sotheby’s in New York! It’d be a nice addition for our classroom walls, don’t you think?